be on the defensive

be on the defensive处于防御状态;取守势：Our football team is on the defensive，for our rival is a champion team and their attack is too powerful for us.我们的足球队在比赛中采取守势，因为我们的对手是个冠军队，他们的攻势对我们来说太强大了。

• psycho-
• sign away
• Durga
• danger coefficient
• complete with
• Cohen, Morris Raphael
• intraoperative
• megastores
• rapid eye movement sleeps
• astronomical lantern
• stingaree
• marketization
• ice floe
• emergency locator transmitters
• kipping
• crapelike
• deideologizing
• nom de guerre
• episcopize
• chem-
• xanthophyllic
• chickie
• jutlands
• grit your teeth
• short-handedness
• ozt
• pectoralis minor
• broche
• dray horses
• diametrically opposed / opposite
• transmission-line parameters
• idealizes
• smile / grin etc from ear to ear
• first-order control
• asafoetidas
• usurpative
• chemoceptor
• janes
• citreous
• trag.
• Passion week
• Spain
• paternize
• coordinate bond
• invariably
• marquenching
• telangiectasias
• Spongiomorphida
• aeriform
• contumelious
• desalinate
• hemopoietics
• on draught
• attack trainer
• chain bridge
• turn sb ↔ out
• TASI
• Oregon myrtles
• octuplicate
• connectivity
• Wasatch winds
• trundled
• red cedar
• contg
• excisemen
• Jones
• break one's parole
• guilt by association
• cross sth ↔ out
• like a lamb to the slaughter
• heat of condensation
• material,
• minifestival
• the alchemist
• buckstays
• freemen
• periblast
• laborism
• extraartistic
• electrostatic wattmeter
• Phoebean
• oc-
• spherulate
• Teucrian
• intonated
• photo opportunity
• shamal
• sumphs
• run across sb/sth
• tape eraser
• buhr
• clinozoisites
• knee-high to a grasshopper
• goramy
• one's complement
• pastoral theology
• bonitoes
• foment
• pile it on / pile on the drama
• philosophership